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by onos 4y ago
Here in USA corporate world it’s very clear that a significant fraction of those into this are “woke washing” over their other bad behavior. Here is the recipe: (1) Stab your employees in the back with one hand to save 100M then (2) don
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by onos 4y ago
Very interesting, cause that’s a reasonable explanation for that alternative norm. Ultimately, if we’re gonna ask what norms are good we should have some cost function we are trying to optimize and ask for norms that encourage it to go up.
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by onos 4y ago
Absolutely these people are American centric. They aim to convince everyone that USA is uniquely evil and having people look into what humanity has really been up to in any other location or time period would completely discredit their goa
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by onos 4y ago
> I have come to realise that party affiliation is far less important to me than fealty to the values that made it possible for me, a Muslim immigrant from India, to prosper in America. > Indeed, one of America’s best-known “anti-raci
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by onos 4y ago
The poster on offer looks quite nice… https://www.c82.net/math-instruments/posters
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by onos 4y ago
This is what they did at times in ancient Athens. One positive was that the average citizen was much more aware of the concerns of the city than would occur if only a select few were running things.
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by onos 4y ago
Problem with these systems is that you can’t study their equilibrium with simulations. That’s cause their equilibrium time scale gets longer and longer as you lower temp and it becomes too expensive to simulate long enough to get there. S
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by onos 4y ago
I think plan is (1) decrease censorship in favor of left, (2) PE style cuts to drop expenses.
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by onos 4y ago
If that’s the point then it seems we are making the right decisions. Dominance in one at the cost of another, possibly less important area.
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by onos 4y ago
Let’s make that a uniform policy across our elite, including Biden.
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Ancient Rome: preserved bronze statues found in Italy(bbc.com)
33 points by onos 4y ago|5 comments
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by onos 4y ago
Definitely interesting to consider how single events have shaped history. Another is the destruction of the library at Alexandria, which was supposedly done by accident, against orders. Had that not been destroyed would we be substantiall
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by onos 4y ago
You’ve only emphasized one side of the interval, which suggests some bias. Eg you haven’t written out that the other side implies you might have a smaller chance of these issues once you get covid. That said, it probably is reasonable to
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by onos 4y ago
I suppose you are right. I didn’t get any of that in any of my science classes before highschool, but I guess it’s possible.
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by onos 4y ago
Which is it peanuts or cashews?
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by onos 4y ago
My hot take: early science classes are almost completely useless, infotainment-type courses. Much better to engage the interested young with math. Then they can get into real science courses when in highschool.
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by onos 4y ago
That sounds more like “avoidance of personal engagement in intellectual pursuit” rather than anti-intellectual - if anything these suggest complete deference to supposed experts.
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by onos 4y ago
A virtue of it being private is that they have many paid people responsible for maintaining the software. I once wrote to them about a special function returning incorrect values and they had it fixed the next day. I consider Mathematica a
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by onos 4y ago
Mathematica enjoys a near monopoly among theoretical physicists. I imagine sage and mathematica then are simply targeting different applications.
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by onos 4y ago
Wonder about the relation to prisoners dilemma. Maybe that’s a simple example: offering prisoners opportunity to rat out the other can gives a worse outcome than forcing collaboration.
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by onos 4y ago
All you need to do is look at UC system to see that there may indeed be an impact. https://opa.berkeley.edu/uc-berkeley-fall-enrollment-data-ne...
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by onos 4y ago
Yes, I learned this and a number of other nice topics in the coursera algorithms courses by Tim Roughgarden, which I highly recommend.
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by onos 4y ago
I learned programming informally via scientific project work. When I learned about hashing and O(1) lookup the power of it truly blew my mind.
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by onos 4y ago
It’s absolutely a reasonable idea and not surprising. Organization self policing is probably as ancient as organization.
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by onos 4y ago
It seems to be both base 20 and base 5.
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Yes, Tldr his mom told him the story and he does not know if it’s true.
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by onos 4y ago
The title suggests the story is known to be fake, but the body doesn’t provide evidence of this. I don’t like Gelman’s arrogant style, and a number of his posts have struck me as sneering at some idea or method without any good counter argu
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by onos 4y ago
Out of the pot and into the frying pan, eh?
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by onos 4y ago
Whatever the rules the parties would evolve to each capture 50/50, seems a likely outcome of basic game theory. These people would still be complaining of course, another universal constant.
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DOJ disrupts criminal activity by individuals working for PRC(twitter.com)
4 points by onos 4y ago|0 comments

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